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Charles Piazzi Smyth was appointed to the post of Astronomer Royal for Scotland and Regius Professor of Astronomy at Edinburgh University in 1846. He was respected for his practical work, and his Teneriffe, an Astronomer's Experiment is also reissued in this series. However, this book, first published in 1864, is testimony to the author's interest in 'pyramidology', and although it was so popular in his own lifetime that it was reprinted five times, his eccentric interpretation of the data he had collected by measuring all aspects of the Great Pyramid of Giza damaged his scientific reputation. Smyth was convinced that the British measurement standard of an inch as a basic unit of length was associated with the sacred cubit of the Bible. This measure was supposedly incorporated in the Pyramid, which he claimed was built under divine guidance by the Ancient Israelites, and enshrined scientific information.

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In this book Egyptian Archeology  and Mathematics meet. The author is an expert in theories and applications in Solid Mechanics and Inverse Problems, a former professor at Ecole Polytechnique and now works with Electricité de France on maintenance operations on nuclear power plants. In the Autumn of 1986, after the end of the operation on the King’s chamber conducted under the Technological and Scientific Sponsorship of EDF, to locate a cavity, he was called to solve a mathematical inverse problem, to find the unknown tomb of the King and the density structure of the whole pyramid based on measurements of microgravity made inside and outside of the pyramid. This book recounts the various search operations on the pyramid of Cheops made at the request of the Egyptian and French authorities in 1986-1987. After the premature end of the Cheops operation in the Autumn of 1986, following the fiasco of unsuccessful drillings in the area suspected by both architects G. Dormion and J.P. Goidin and microgravity auscultation, EDF and CPGF (a geophysical company) teams continued their researches with measurements already made, trying this time an inversion of the Newton gravity equation for the entire pyramid and using another theoretical team led by the author. The inverse problem solution confirmed the results of auscultations, but found no cavity. However, the image of the average density at the surface of the entire pyramid forms a sort of square “spiral” probably related to the construction method. In 2000, Jean-Pierre Houdin considered the author’s results of 1988 as a confirmation of his theory of the internal ramp tunnel. Since then the author has done additional research and found that classical theories of the construction based on degrees and the particular mode of stones filling can also report the same densitogram. The book is richly illustrated with color figures. It is dotted with information concerning  Physics, Mechanics and the History of Egyptian Antiquities. The book ends with the greatest mystery of the pyramid about the unknown tomb of the King and a dream to see the tomb at an unexpected place.

Fracture mechanics. --- Great Pyramid (Egypt). --- Inversion (Geophysics) --- Great Pyramid (Egypt) --- History & Archaeology --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Physics --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Civil Engineering --- Applied Mathematics --- Cosmic Physics --- Regions & Countries - Africa --- Cheops, Pyramid of (Egypt) --- Giza, Great Pyramid of (Egypt) --- Great Pyramid (Jizah, Egypt) --- Great Pyramid of Giza (Egypt) --- Khufu, Pyramid of (Egypt) --- Pyramid of Cheops (Egypt) --- Pyramid of Khufu (Egypt) --- Engineering. --- Architecture. --- Mathematical optimization. --- Applied mathematics. --- Engineering mathematics. --- Archaeology. --- Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering. --- Optimization. --- Architectural History and Theory. --- Pyramids --- Pyramids of Giza (Egypt) --- Mathematical and Computational Engineering. --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Optimization (Mathematics) --- Optimization techniques --- Optimization theory --- Systems optimization --- Mathematical analysis --- Maxima and minima --- Operations research --- Simulation methods --- System analysis --- Engineering --- Engineering analysis --- Design and construction --- Mathematics --- Architecture, Primitive